Pokemon GO is About to Become More Expensive for Some Players

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Niantic quietly announced that players of its games will soon see price changes for its in-game currencies for Pokemon GO, Ingress, and Pikmin Bloom. The announcement was made quietly and could seemingly go unnoticed by potentially affected players until after the changes go into effect.

Niantic made the announcement through its NianitcHelp Support account that certain regions will be seeing price rises. It claims that changes to Apple's App Store price tiers are the cause of the changes after Apple made changes to the developer tier list prices that went into effect in October. Niantic will make similar changes to users on other mobile platforms and keep the price changes in line with iOS users.

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According to Niantic, it's making blanket changes for any country that uses the Euro as its primary currency. Other countries that will see changes include:

Niantic says the price changes could go into effect as early as October 5.

Niantic making this announcement on its Support twitter page rather than its main account feels like a move to dampen backlash or hide the announcement from its fanbase. As of writing, none of its games' Twitter accounts have said anything about the impending price changes. Niantic has had to deal with waves of backlash and fan revolt for its decisions in the past and is seemingly trying to soften the wave of angry players for this announcement.

As one fan who made their frustration about the price change known in the NianticSupport replies, Niantic's net worth is over 9 billion dollars. Not to conflate the company's valuation to its bank statements, fans once again feel that a massive company that makes millions on billions of dollars a year is